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{{Infobox Legion
|Image=Theovan Guard.jpg
|Numeration= IV
|Primogenitor= De Carton Wiart
|Cognomen= Tip of the spear
|Observed Strategic Tendencies= Precision Strike Specialists
|Noteworthy Domains = Stonwool
|Allegiance= Fedelitas Constantus
|Colours= Abyss Blue with Black and White trim
|Quote= “Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose." -Attributed to De Carton Wiart Memoirs of a subjugated Stonwool
}}

[[File:Theovan_Guard2.jpg]]

The Theovan Guard follow a rigorous doctrine of precision strikes, seeking to destroy their enemies by eliminating its leadership cadre. Focused primarily on conquest, the legion has little interest in governance.

Known for their exemplary training regime and De Carton Wiart's strong geneseed, Stonwool has become a revered breeding ground for extraordinary military thinkers. The legion is numerous yet operates a delegated mission command structure, meaning even the newest brother Sergeant can find himself leading significant numbers of Imperial Army and Theovan Military formations into battle.

=History=

== The war of subjugation==

The world was split between the militaristic Stonwoolians and the Alliance, a conglomerate of nations on the remaining free continent. It was evident to all that eventually De Carton Wiart's military machine would cross the planetary ocean and crush the remaining nations. With this in mind the Alliance sought to prevent their future being dominated, their solution was to arm themselves with biological weaponry designed to target a certain genetic trait only carried by females from the Stonwoolian continent, making them infertile. Having deployed the weapon they awaited peace overtures from De Carton Wiart.

De Carton Wiart was not about to abandon his people to history by such a fate, yet he was unwilling to negotiate with those who had performed such an abominable act. Turning from unconventional weapons he set about creating a new breed of soldier, one that was designed for war, invulnerable to biological and chemical attack. A martial race that would see the Alliance wiped from the face of the planet.

The war was over swiftly, with casualties in the high billions. Surviving natural born and those who were of the defeated peoples fell under a new military-industrial administration. With a mission, set by De Carton Wiart to create a fleet of vehicles capable of space travel in order to expand his domain.

... then the Emperor arrived.

== Readying a legion ==

Stonwoolian martial prowess and their relentless devotion to De Carton Wiart saw him assume the mantle of Primarch with ease. The planet was able to find an abundance of willing volunteers to form the Emperor's fourth legion and found that their knowledge of genetic engineering enabled a strong and stable geneseed from which to transform their candidates. Such was the populace's desire to follow De Carton Wiart to the stars, often those deemed too old or incompatible with the geneseed took their own lives.

The resultant legion formed at great pace, and was named the Theovan Guard after an argument between De Carton Wiart and one of his brothers about which legion would act as '''the''' Emperor's ''Van'''''guard''' in the great crusade.

= Legion Organisation =

The Legion is blessed with the inherited traits of their homeworld. A martial prowess far surpassing the average, an innate tendency to aggression and an almost flawless rate of success amongst those implanted with geneseed due to the nature of the Warrior Caste and the Stonwoolian knowledge of genetic engineering.

Astartes of the legion pride themselves on their discipline and their training reflects this - as with all Astartes they know no fear, however the Theovan Guard know that where they fall another shall take his place. The legion is unrelenting in its pursuit of victory.

'Every problem may be solved by force, sometimes it is just a matter of a bigger force.'

Unlike other Legions the Officers of the Theovan are not Astartes, De Carton Wiart instead selects each Officer - having passed the CCAP (Command Cadre Astartes Program) these Officers command from Century level upwards. At Century level an Astartes Centurion (Brother-Sergeant) will mentor the Officer until he is ready to join the command staff of a Cohort as a Tribune. De Carton Wiart believes that this provides the legion with a synergy unseen amongst the fellow Legions, allowing for a greater cooperation between all forces under his command. Each Officer is given limited augmentation and modified Power Armour with reversed helmet colouration, to mark him out as a leader.

The legion is divided into Cohorts, plus a 5,000 strong Alesian Defence Cadre responsible for training new Astartes and Stonwoolian Imperial Army troops. Each Cohort was founded consequentially, bolstered with experienced Astartes from the previous Cohort providing NCOs.

==Unique Formations==
===1st Cohort (De Wiart's Own) – Assault specialists===
Equipped with Terminator Armour
The majority of the Terran veterans are in the Prima Facie Cohort, with the remainder dispersed as a solid NCO Cadre for subsequent Cohort and Imperial Army Foundings.
Serving in the Prima Facie is an honour in itself and battle casualty replacements are selected only from the finest and most distinguished Astartes from the other Cohorts.
Prima Facie acts as the Legions hammer, an armoured fist capable of annihilating any foe. It has no Imperial Army attachments and is the only Cohort with Astartes Officers.

===2nd Cohort (Seaforth) – Infiltration Unit===
Equipped with Scout Armour
The most able new recruits from foundings find themselves attached to the 2nd Cohort. They are highly specialised scout and infiltration troops, focused on high value targets and ground of vital strategic importance to the legion.

==Combat Doctrine==

'Cut off the serpent's head and it will fall.'

=Legion Homeworld=

''Main Article [[Stonwool]]'' 

Stonwool is the capital world of the Imperial presence in the fringes of the Maelstrom, the planet supports a large population of 76 Bn.

Pre-Imperial Stonwool; The city-state of Stonwool was entirely militarised during the 'De Carton Wiart's war of subjugation'. Having been razed by their neighbours previously, the society became entirely focused on conducting a total war against its fellow nations and city-states; under the leadership of De Carton Wiart, seeking their complete annihilation.

In order to bring the conflict to an end and resupply his ever dwindling ranks, De Carton Wiart threw his efforts into genetic research. Reorganising the population to suit the military needs of the campaign. Warriors, commanders and combat service troops. Utilising all captured and non essential workers as a labour force.

The warrior caste were thus created, utilising some of De Carton Wiart's own genetics mixed with the best of the remaining Soldiers; they were designed to be bigger, faster, stronger and more aggressive than your average human Soldier ever could be - the trade off being that no Stonwoolian has ever lived beyond 30 terran years, less those who join the ranks of the legion.

Present; Stonwool is the homeworld of not only the Theocan Guard Legion but some of the Imperial Army's finest Infantry Regiments, widely regarded as the best soldiers in the Imperium short of the Astartes. This is primarily as a result of their unique genetically engineered background and subsequent upbringing and training.

=Primarch=

''Main Article: [[De Carton Wiart]]'' 

Born to war, raised during a millenia long planetary-wide pre-atomic age war between nation states. Found by a warrior from a small tribe on a backward continent; he was quickly recognised for his potential as a warrior, given his prodigal size and intellect. During his early years his people were insignificant, managing to avoid the majority of the conflict. Being underdeveloped and lacking the technology of its rivals - it was defeated by a neighbouring imperialistic foe.

They adopted a guerrilla campaign, wrecking havoc amongst their enemies - but suffering much in return as the larger nation utilised draconian punishments against the civilian population. It was at this time that De Carton Wiart's focus swung from becoming the ultimate warrior to that of defeating his enemies. He recognised that in order to defeat them, he would have to reform his people's mindset and become the leader they were so desperately seeking.

His enemy were a force of considerable strength, an empire spanning a third of the planet, with weapons far surpassing that of the Stonwoolians. Recognising the weaknesses of his people; they were warriors of a far better pedigree but lacked the necessary discipline and logistics to surpass a technologically superior enemy. The people were not geared for a war, a total war that would see them free or annihilated. He set about arming every man, woman and child.

Within a year of taking leadership of his people he had formed the entire populace into a military machine. Bringing them to bear on the imperial yoke of his enemy, a deciding battle in which De Carton Wiart stood at the fore of his people.

He was successful, destroying an Army far technologically superior. Merciless in their subsequent cleansing of their enemy from their ancestral lands. Taking over the factories and arming themselves with the vanquished foes weaponry. Advancing with almost immediate affect into a post-industrial society, his previous reforms came to full fruition; mission command allowed the various arms of the newly formed military to conquer their continental neighbours rapidly over the coming years. The political will for total war emanating from the harsh past of their history and De Carton Wiart's personality, coupled with his seemingly endless ability to keep his warrior people on a permanent combat effectiveness surpassing their adversaries. The Stonwoolian people soon found themselves in control of their continent having defeated all who opposed them.

=Culture and Beliefs=

Martial society, bred and raised for combat.

=Geneseed=

Stonwoolian genetic engineering is the stuff of legend, several Tech-Priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus have spent time on Stonwool in order to further mankind's knowledge of genetics. As a result, the legion's geneseed is incredibly compatible with most of the Stonwoolian population.

=Legion Attributes=

*'''Tactics=''' Specialised
*'''Espionage=''' Average
*'''Aggression=''' Good
*'''Mitigation=''' Average
*'''Diplomacy=''' Average
*'''Geneseed=''' Specialised

=Homeworld Attributes=

*'''Population=''' Specialised
*'''Fabrication=''' Average
*'''Fortification=''' Average

=Exemplary Battles=
==Operation McKinnon==

''Main Article: [[Operation McKinnon]]'' 

Also known as the Raid on Millobruk and Ley'Shir, was a major raid conducted by the 3rd Century of the 2nd Cohort against the headquarters of Mugabedean forces at Millobruk and a smaller camp at Ley'Shir on the planet Sotonia on one of the legions first expeditions for the Emperor. More than 300,000 enemy fighters were reported as killed and 50,000 wounded while only two Astartes died with a further six wounded.

A troop carrier was flown over the Millobruk camps 10 minutes before the airstrike as part of a deception plan: the assembled enemy forces assumed a false alarm and did not disperse or try to take cover when the Astartes participating in the actual strike subsequently approached. In their first pass, four bombers dropped 1200 Alpha bombs (Stonwoolian anti-personnel cluster bombs) over an area 1.1 kilometres long and 500 metres wide.

Following the initial air strikes, scouts engaged opportunity targets in allocated areas that together inflicted the majority of the casualties. The remainder of the century were deployed on three sides of the objective into various stop groups and sweep lines, and were also effective in killing large numbers of fleeing enemy. Nevertheless, the small size of the ground force and the lack of a complete envelopment allowed a number of fleeing enemy to escape. Two important targets of the attack, commanders Craig David and matthew Le Tissier escaped.

A "stay-behind" force of terran veterans remained in ambush positions around the area overnight to wait for any who might return; these were then extracted by gunship in the morning. The Century withdrew in good order having suffered one brother killed at Millobruk, and a gunship pilot killed trying to crash land his in a field after his craft was damaged by ground fire.

Several thousand tons of equipment and unknown tech was captured. The captured equipment was ether destroyed where it was found or it was taken back to Stonwool.

=Notable Members=
'''Primarch''' 
[[De Carton Wiart]] Commander in Chief

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 ===2nd Cohort (Seaforth) – Infiltration Unit===
 Equipped with Scout Armour
-The most able new recruits from foundings find themselves attached to the 2nd Cohort. They are highly specialised scout and infiltration troops, focused on high value targets and ground of vital strategic importance to the legion.
+the most able new initiates from foundings are placed in to the 2nd Cohort. They are highly specialised scout and infiltration troops, focused on high value targets and ground of vital strategic importance to the legion.
 ==Combat Doctrine==

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